Is Russian Police Reform Doomed? Lessons from Estonia and Ekaterina Mishina describes the recent transgressions of the Russian police in
Kazan, analyzes the successful police reform in Estonia and Georgia, and ...

Vladimir Bukovsky - Institute of Modern RussiaVladimir Bukovsky : First of all, it's important to understand that we are talking
about two different countries. The Soviet Union was a totalitarian country. You
can ...

" Russia Rising": 30 Graphic Designers Challenge Putin's Regime'The current regime is openly disdainful of its constituents, and while it generally
does not threaten their lives, it does assault their human ...

Corruption in Russia as a Business - Institute of Modern RussiaCharacter, areas, and level of corruption in Russia 2. Corruption has ... Both
corruption in Russia and the attempts to fight it are not new. Even in ...

On Intolerance to “Others”: An Ideological Portrait of Modern RussiaThe principal idea that consolidates different parts of Russian society is
xenophobia and intolerance to “others.” Such, at least, was the ...

Russia's Chinese Turn - Institute of Modern RussiaIn late May, Russian president Vladimir Putin was in China on an official visit , the
main result of which was the signing of a thirty-year contract to ...

Columbia University Celebrated 400th Anniversary of the House of February 21, 2013, marked the 400th anniversary of the House of Romanov . In
honor of this date, Columbia University held a conference entitled “In Search of ...

Ivan Rybkin: “The Lack of Parliamentarianism in Russia Will Lead to As the Russian Duma marks its 20th anniversary, IMR Advisor Olga Khvostunova
... its first and second parts that comprise 90 percent of its full text . .... to a repeat
of 1991, when a huge country called the USSR ceased to exist.

The Revival of Serfdom in Russia - Institute of Modern RussiaIn December, the Russian State Duma adopted a law reviving the Soviet rule of
propiska—official residential registration. A key feature of the ...

Moscow's 2014 Election : Will the Democrats Unite?Next year, Moscow will hold its legislative elections. Traditionally, elections in
Russia's capital city are considered a national event. IMR Senior ...

IMR Holds Conference on Corruption in the Sochi OlympicsOn January 30, the Institute of Modern Russia (IMR) held a conference entitled “
Olympic Abuses: Russia Before the Sochi Games ” at the National Press Club in ...

The Kremlin's Voice: 10 Years Without Independent TV in RussiaTen years ago, Russian authorities terminated the broadcasts of TVS, the ... in the
case of TV6 , the channel that housed former NTV journalists.

Moral Deterioration of Putin's “ Power Vertical ”: Outcomes of 20122012 was an extremely contradictory year. On the one hand, Vladimir Putin has
returned to the presidency and has considerably tightened his ...

Accessible Environments for Russians with DisabilitiesThirteen million people with disabilities currently reside in Russia—this is around
10 percent of the country's population. Yet the conditions for ...

Putin Shows Off in Latin America - Institute of Modern RussiaDating back to the Cold War, Russian leaders have at times claimed ... In
Argentina, a country locked out of international capital markets as a ...

On Russia's European Choice - Institute of Modern RussiaThe Institute of Modern Russia continues its series of articles by Alexander Yanov
on the history of Russian nationalism. In this new essay, the ...

Moscow Protests Echo in Brooklyn - Institute of Modern RussiaOn September 30th, the Institute of Modern Russia (IMR) and InterArt Gallery
presented a multimedia program on the Russian protest movement at the
Brooklyn ...

Putin, Lukashenko and Kerimov : The Russian-Belarusian TriangleOn September 13, it became known that the company's main shareholder,
Suleyman Kerimov , sold his shares to Vladimir Kogan, a friend of ...

Institutional Economics for Dummies - Institute of Modern RussiaThe Institute of Modern Russia begins publishing a series of selections from
economist Aleksandr Auzan's 'Institutional Economics for Dummies ...

The List of Persons Recognized as Political Prisoners by Russia's The list of persons recognized as political prisoners by Russia's Memorial Human
Rights Center on the basis of international human rights ...

A Warning to Medvedev 25 November 2013 Vladimir Putin's return However, in November, for the first time in eighteen months, Medvedev decided
to publicly criticize a bill introduced to the State Duma by Putin .

Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova : How Corruption Threatens the As Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine look to strengthen the rule of law and ... actors
– from Russia to the US – are influencing the reform process in each country.

Putin Tries to Bring the Money Home - Institute of Modern RussiaAccording to the Financial Times , Putin has taken certain steps that indicate that
Cyprus will be excluded from his anti-corruption and asset ...

Putinomics: Who Will Pay for the Deficit? - Institute of Modern RussiaThe head of the Russian Pension Fund , Anton Drozdov, is calling for allowing
mothers to use their capital without restrictions. According to him ...

The Fate of the Nashi Movement: Where Will the Kremlin's Youth Go?The Nashi (“Ours”) movement appeared in 2005 along with other youth
organizations that "worked" for the Kremlin. Nashi played a key role: it ...

New Russian Laws: Can a “ Like ” Really Send You to Prison?On June 30, president Vladimir Putin signed a law introducing several legislative
amendments directed at toughening Russia's laws on fighting ...

Elections in Moscow: Why a Boycott Is CounterproductiveSergei Sobyanin (left) and Alexei Navalny are considered the main ... “A boycott
will not yield quick practical results ,” Russian human rights legend ... be found of
an authoritarian regime stepping down as a result of a boycott?

Echoes of the Past: Punitive Psychiatry - Institute of Modern RussiaIn October, Russian activist Mikhail Kosenko, one of the accused in the '
Bolotnaya Square Case, ' was sentenced to compulsory psychiatric ...

Masha Gessen. The Man Without a Face - Institute of Modern RussiaMasha Gessen The Man Without a Face : The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
Riverhead Hardcover, 2012 The Man Without a Face is the chilling account of
how ...